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Boy, those look crisp! That Roadrunner gets me psyched.

No sweat, box not important. All that matters is that we see your basic plastic starting point so we can all appreciate your journey from aspiration to glory ?. Looking forward to it. (Sorry Anthony, not trying to speak on your behalf).

It would be a fun car to "recustomize." Basically lop off all the gaudy head scratchers and re-envision it.

For the '61 Ranchero I'm considering some five slot deep dish wheels from the parts box, but one rim is broken, so I'm gonna try to fix it with a parts box ring. Broken rim is ground off and the ring is prepped. All four after repair and awaiting paint. Still undecided if these are what I really want to go with but that's where I'm at for now.

Love those 32's, they're so balanced. I'll need to find your build threads.

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

Fantastic work and wonderful choice of subjects. If that was all last year, then I can't to see what you do this year.

They’re pretty common, half the members here probably have one. Maybe offer a trade in the trade section.

…AND done! ?? Kidding. I built this in the mid 70’s as a tween. This is the first time I used a rattle can to paint a model. I still have it and it’s nice to have a built reference for my ‘61 CBR Ranchero. I could have also done this for the replica build off CBP.

Whoa, Bill. That's an interesting departure from what we're used to seeing from you. Looking forward to it.

What a great turnout of finishers this year on a theme that got a lot of builders excited to join in. Special thanks to Jonathan (disconovaman) for keeping the energy up for the whole year and motivating builders to persevere. ?

Congratulations Kurt! That'll be a guaranteed winner no matter where you show it.

The beauty shot, right here. C'est manifique!

I'd say four builds in a year for a farm caring, working professional is pretty respectable. That '37 is pretty wild and probably my favorite, but the Viper is a striking piece of work.

Actually, we have 65 votes and as a comparison, there were 75 in 2018, 50 in 2019 and we had 63 votes in 2020. I'm satisfied with the count and we start 2022 in almost a week. I went ahead and closed the poll so the numbers are now locked.

Your call Anthony.

About as nice as I've seen. Yup.

Came across this photo of my dad (the youngster). That car went everywhere, so a Model A with a flathead wouldn't be an unreasonable choice.

Also they were designed and built when barely half the roads in the civilized world were paved.

I've always preferred the old kits. More now than ever because technology and good company owners have cleaned up the notorious flash and poor registration. Sometimes I'm tickled to find how fresh and clean some of those tired old kits have become. Couldn't pay me to pick up an 80's vintage repop. Crossing my fingers on what they've done for this one.

I built this as a tyke in the very late 60's and I loved it and I still have it and I still like it. Enough that I've considered restoring it. Yeah, that box art did it for me.

The wheels make all the difference. Most of the ones we see are just painted mostly black, which is also correct, but I rarely see modelers go to the time consuming step of the three-color wheels.

Excellent lens/zoom choice. I try to shoot all my models in a similar fashion, usually at the bench.

Wow, full blown seven piece fireplace... you know... in the van. Gotta be right up there with the most obscure 'gaws.

He was such an innovator. We enjoyed his concert in Minneapolis a few years ago. I never got into the Monkees much but I loved his video and film work in the 80's and his contributions to early MTV. His movie Repo Man has always been one of my favorite dark comedies. You should read P.J. O'Rourke's book "Driving Like Crazy" about he and Nesmith driving the Baja 1000. Nesmith first competed in 1969 on a Triumph motorcycle then raced a Class 8 desert truck for a number of years.